NEWS: lowheaven begin to rot?

A run of seven North American shows have been announced for July as Toronto Post Metal outfit lowheaven share “Mercy Death“, a second single from their upcoming new album “Ritual Decay“. That will see the cold light of day on 29th August via MNRK Heavy having been produced by Brett Romnes (Boston Manor, Hot Mulligan) and mastered by Mangus Lindberg of Cult Of Luna. The promise? Heavy distortion, shifting dynamics and layering or vocalist and guitarist Dan Thomson puts it “earphone candy.”

Guitarist and vocalist Dan Thomson comments: “This song feels like the soundtrack to my nightmares. It was one of the songs in the batch where I realized just how heavy this band was going to be. Our goal was always to find a way to musically transmit what we all felt going on around us, and this one hit the nail on the head. As with a lot of the songs on Ritual Decay, I came in with a rough framework of the lyrics, and then rewrote the whole song the night before recording it. I was spending the late nights in the studio isolated, just pouring over and scrutinizing every line. Every detail. Trying to find a way to free myself. This is the product of that.”

“The original working title for this song was ‘Godzilla,’” recalls guitarist / keyboardist Alex Pley, “and it earned it. Writing this song with Dan and (vocalist/bassist) Mikey (Buchta) in the early days of the band was when it started to really sink in how heavy we were going to get. One of the ‘themes’ that I really tried to stick with when writing for this band was a sort of ‘end of the world’ feel; terrifying and powerful. The end of this song is a fucking monster, and playing this song live is going to ruin some people’s lives if they aren’t ready. Chaos king still reigns”

Guitarist Pat Pajak adds: “This song almost feels like an elastic band that just won’t snap when playing it. Definitely encapsulates the dread lowheaven strives to convey, but with some melody and resolve as well. I feel it reflects the range lowheaven delivers rather well.”